18 Staggering Statistics and Trends Every Marketer Needs to See (Pun Intended)

Sometimes, seeing is believing. Magic can happen in the blink of an eye. Keep reading, I’m sure we’ll see eye to eye.

You may be sensing a theme here.

Well, in 2016, the importance of visual content was emphasized even more as we noticed changes on most major social networks, including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter. And simultaneously, video continues to grow in popularity among both consumers and brands.

Yes, visual content is not going away. So if you’re not on board yet, you may want to rethink that decision.

Thanks to our friends at HubSpot for putting together this great list.

Here are 18 visual content marketing statistics to keep in mind as you move your business forward:

General Visual Content Statistics

1) 37% of marketers said visual marketing was the most important form of content for their business, second only to blogging (38%). (Source)

2) 74% of social media marketers use visual assets in their social media marketing, ahead of blogs (68%) and videos (60%). (Source)

Emerging Visual Marketing Trends

9) 51% of all video plays are on mobile devices — this growth represents a 15% increase from 2015 and a 203% increase from 2014. (Source)

10) Videos under five minutes in length account for 55% of total video consumption time on smartphones. (Source)

Infographic Stats

11) Eye-tracking studies show internet readers pay close attention to information-carrying images. In fact, when the images are relevant, readers spend more time looking at the images than they do reading text on the page. (Source)

12) Infographics were the B2B content marketing tactic with the biggest increase in use, from 2015 to 2016, up from 50% to 58%. (Source)

Social Media Stats

13) Tweets with images receive 150% more retweets than tweets without images. (Source)

14) The equivalent of 110 years of live video is watched on Periscope every day. (Source)

15) There were more than 500 million Instagram users in June 2016. (Source)